Looking for 2D cad recommendations

I am looking for a 2D cad or sketching program that does a few things.

1) It will be used by non-cad, non-engineer floor production people.

2) Can "select chain" or similar capability

3) Layer control with color per layer

4) Is easy in the sketching capability

5) Easy to use linear array copy

6) Very inexpensive

7) Opens/saves/exports DXF/DWG

Autocad and AutoCad like programs are out because they have a very engineering like interface. Many of our sketches have many entities and to offset a chain of entities you have to go in a click on every entity instead of selecting chain like SW. We have some licenses of DesignCad and I just tried out DraftSight. Same thing with them. Both very much like AutoCad. I just love sketching in a part in SW. That is the capability and ease of use, I just can't affford the price tag for where this is going to be used. Also, SW has way more features than needed, it's paying for a lot of awesome software that I don't need for this particular application.

Most non-engineering type folks I know (woodworkers) who need to do design work use Google SketchUp, because it is free, and very intuitive (for them, I find it difficult after learning SW/ProE/etc). The Professional version can export to DXF, and costs ~$500.

What is it about AutoCAD-like functions that is tough to use? I don't really understand your statement as to why AutoCAD doesn't work for you? There might be a lisp routine that does chain selection. There are literally thousands of available sample codes for AutoCAD and similar applications.

Prior to SolidWorks we used a package called Cimatron. It was Dos based and had no picture icons. I would say it was " Cad for Dummies" because it was so easy to use. Unfortunately, Cimatron does not offer the 2D package anymore. We still use Cimatron to access some of our old drawings.See attached file for interface.